NEW YORK—As Americans feel the sting from rising food costs, one Democratic candidate for New York mayor proposes a solution: sourcing locally.
“We have a lot of farms in this state that need more support so that they can send local foods down here, so we’re not paying as much in transport. We’ve got a robust system here that we need to support,” Zellnor Myrie, a state senator from Brooklyn, told NTD, a sister media outlet of The Epoch Times.
New York has 30,500 farms as of 2024, according to the Department of Agriculture. The department’s latest data show that farmers receive less than 16 cents for every dollar spent on food, with the rest going to costs such as transportation, processing, and distribution….